Women's Studies Results
* Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Biography Reference Bank
(Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
CountryWatch
(Provider: CountryWatch)
Description: info on the world's countries.
CQ Historic Documents
(Provider: CQ Press)
Description: primary source material dating back to 1972. Includes the texts of significant speeches, Supreme Court decisions, international agreements, and scientific findings
Ethnic NewsWatch*
(Provider: Proquest)
Description:
Articles published by ethnic and minority presses
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias
Literature Resource Center*
(Provider: Gale)
Description: literary criticism, plot summaries, author biographies, bibliographies, links to web resources, and more
Article Databases (multiple subjects)
EBSCOhost*
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.
JSTOR*
(Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.
ProQuest Newspapers
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: "offers full-text access to over 850 regional, national, and international newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."
ProQuest*
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.
Reference Databases (multiple subjects)
Biography Reference Bank
(Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias
Oxford English Dictionary
(Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language
Oxford Reference Online
(Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press
Free Resources on the Web
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- American Memory Women's History Collections (Library of Congress)
- Digital Shomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
- Gale Biographies: Women's History
- Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
- U.S. Census Bureau: Statistical Abstract
- Women's International Center Biography Index
- WomensHealth.gov
